History YMMV / MajorLeague

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Doyle. Also Cerrano.

* HarsherInHindsight: Just a few years after the film was released, Florida did get its own major league baseball team, the Marlins. Cleveland fans couldn't helps but notice the irony when after a couple of seasons of being a laughingstock the Marlins became contenders and then defeated the Indians in the 1997 World Series.

** Rachel Phelps' scheme to move the UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}} Indians to UsefulNotes/{{Miami}} became a moot point as soon as Miami received their own expansion UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball franchise in the form of the Marlins in 1993. The Indians ultimately face off against their Eastern Division rivals, the UsefulNotes/NewYork Yankees in a one-game playoff. Since 1994, the Indians have been in the Central Division, after Major League Baseball went to a three division alignment.
** Similarly, one of the incentives for moving the Indians to Miami that Phelps cites is that they'd be moving to a new 60,000 seat stadium, which given the time would more than likely be a multi-purpose venue with football. Just 2 years after the movie's release Comiskey Park II (now Guaranteed Rate Field) would open in Chicago, and the following year would open up Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore. The two stadiums were [[GenreKiller Genre Killers]] for huge multipurpose stadiums, incentivizing teams to build smaller, 35-45k capacity stadiums, and indeed, when the Florida Marlins first began play in 1993, their attendance struggled for years, one reason cited being that their stadium, the multipurpose 75,000 Joe Robbie Stadium, was terrible for baseball.

** The backdrop of the film was framed around the real-life blue-collar struggles of Cleveland as a city and the Indians as a long-suffering franchise at the end of the 1980's. The team was not just bad, but also played in a dilapidated stadium that was emblematic of the city as a whole. In the mid-90's, the downtown Cleveland area got a rejuvenated shot in the arm with a new sports-and-business complex headlined by a brand-new ballpark for the Indians (Jacobs, now Progressive, Field). The city began to flourish financially while the Indians were a baseball powerhouse (including two World Series appearances in three years) selling out the stadium every game for years, a stark contrast to the woebegotten Cleveland of the 80's shown in the movie.

* EvilIsSexy: Rachel Phelps.

** Throughout the movie, Rick Vaughn's ability to throw mid-upper nineties heat is treated as a big deal, and at the time the movie was made, it would be. However, by the TheNewTwenties, being able to throw that hard is extremely commonplace in the major leagues, especially among relievers. [[note]]This is also because of changes in the way they measure speed. The JUGS gun they used in the 80s was known to be slower than the Stalker Pro Sports Radar Gun that came out in the 90s, and measured the pitch closer to the release point. (A pitch can slow by up to 9-10% by the time it reaches the plate due to air. In the 2000s they started measuring pitch speed at release point. Back then they measured 50 feet out. Current Statcast measures point of release now. So a pitch measuring 92 on a JUGS could measure 94 on a Stalker Pro Sports and 95 or 96 on the current Stalker Pro II)[[/note]]

** Rachel Phelps' scheme to move the UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}} Indians to UsefulNotes/{{Miami}} became a moot point as soon as Miami received their own expansion [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams Major League Baseball]] franchise in the form of the Marlins in 1993. The Indians ultimately face off against their Eastern Division rivals, the UsefulNotes/NewYork Yankees in a one-game playoff. Since 1994, the Indians have been in the Central Division, after Major League Baseball went to a three division alignment.